Time is a constant. There are twenty-four hours in a day, no more, no less. The challenge is to maximise their use - and it’s possible, provided you approach the issue methodically. All accomplishment in life, other than that which results by accident, passes through three stages - the goal, the plan, and the action. By maintaining this sequence, you can better organise yourself to squeeze more out of those twenty-four hours... 1. Identify what is strategic - to you. Know exactly why you’re doing what you’re doing. Identify strategic issues - the essentials of your job or the main reasons why you are employed in your current position - and isolate them from those that are non-strategic. An excessive number, more than six, say, indicates that you need to clarify your role description. Free yourself of the non-strategic issues: eliminate or reduce them significantly - usually by delegating. 2. [...]